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The fallacy of the '''stolen concept''', also known as the fallacy of the '''self-negating statement''', is the [[logical fallacy]] of implicitly affirming what one wants to disprove or, alternatively, implicitly denying what one wants to prove.  That is, the [[conclusion]] [[contradiction|contradicts]] one of the [[premise]]s. An example is the [[postmodernism|postmodernist]] claim to know objectively that objective knowledge is impossible.

The fallacy of the '''stolen concept''', also known as the fallacy of the '''self-negating statement''', is the [[logical fallacy]] of implicitly affirming what one wants to disprove or, alternatively, implicitly denying what one wants to prove.  That is, the [[conclusion]] [[contradiction|contradicts]] one of the [[premise]]s.

*[[Socialist]]s claim that property is theft, but the concept of theft presupposes a right to own property.

*[[postmodernism|Postmodernists]] claim to know objectively that objective knowledge is impossible.

*[[Liberal Christianity|Liberal Christians]] claim that the [[Bible]], when [[Cafeteria Christianity|"rightly" divided]] and [[allegorical interpretation|"correctly" interpreted]], is the ultimate authority on [[faith]].  However, for that to work, the truly ultimate authority on faith would be the standard used for choosing which Bible verses to follow and for interpreting them, not the Bible itself.

==References==

==References==

*[http://www.goodart.org/stolen.htm Stolen Concept]

*[http://www.goodart.org/stolen.htm Stolen Concept]

[[Category:Logical Fallacies]]

[[Category:Logical Fallacies]]